May 4
Seattle Sites of the Day:

Turf: A Community for Homeless Youth & Families
Turf: Site Map

"TURF is a place where everyone without a physical home -- especially children, youth, and families -- can find ways to build up our own sense of turf, our own inner home. We have links to practical resources: food, clothing, shelter, health care, child care, education & jobs. And we have a lot of ways to communicate with others, in and out of housing, to build a stronger human community."

Anitra: What I'm Working On Right Now

"4/28/2000 - The SHARE / WHEEL Tent City has moved four times during the past three days, and is currently in the parking lot at All Saints Lutheran Church, at Cloverdale & Wabash. If you believe that everyone has the right to sleep safely, please contact Seattle city officials and tell them to start working with SHARE and WHEEL to set up a Tent City that works for everyone."

HistoryLink

-	Seattle Timeline: May, 1970
-	Vigilantes Pummel Demonstrators at UW in May 1970
-	Police Vigilantes: May 1970, An Eyewitness Account
-	What's Your Story?

This past week (Apr 27 - May 3) HistoryLink looked back at May, 1970, featuring a photo of the I-5 freeway march and a newly updated timeline.

"Use the form below to alert HistoryLink to stories of people, families, groups, companies, communities, or other subjects which would help flesh out our understanding of local history. We are particularly interested in tales of daily life in the past and the contributions made by 'ordinary' people in building our community. Our staff or volunteers will follow up..."

Stop the Killing of the Gray Whale

Anti-whaling activists have set up this site to publish current news and opinion.

"We hope to stop the killing of gray whales by the Makah tribe because it opens the door to worldwide whaling."

"Eastern Pacific gray whales migrate north from Baja, home to the grays' last remaining nursery..."

"... whether the 20-30 whales allocated to be killed... are to be taken from the smaller summer resident population(s) of 35-200 whales, or randomly from the eastern Pacific heard of 25,000... to date, the scheduled hunts have not coincided with the migrations."

"A second smaller wave passes through May and early June and consists almost entirely of cows with newborn calves."

In a letter to the editor in the April Seattle JACL newsletter, Robert Shimabukuro writes, in part:

"I had heard the moans and groans from other parents checking out schools for their kids, but I didn't know what they were going through until I was faced with the same situation... It should be obvious to the most casual observer that some schools and communities in Seattle are getting shortchanged...

"... few rocket scientists and brain surgeons will be coming out of southend schools unless drastic changes in policy are made and carried out. ... It has to do with recognizing the inequities and doing something about it. ... Nobody is mentioning the words racism or classism anymore, but they obviously should be.

"... where is the outrage over the state of the school itself, regardless of the name? ... Could the lack of outrage possibly be because the student body is 88% non-white? Could it possibly be because 71% of the school's students are on free or reduced lunch? ... Somebody, convince me that this isn't about race and money. ...

"Show that you care, that you really are concerned about the students. Show some support, along with dig deep-down heartfelt dollars, to help turn the school around, to help the community around the school in improving Aki Kurose Middle School. And when the school starts producing not only rocket scientists and brain surgeons, but well-informed, thinking students, prepared for high school, we can all rejoice together."

May 20 - 23
CPSR Conference:
Shaping the Network Society